Two Musicians Hit the Right Notes, With Practice

“We’re a 24/7 hang couple,” she said. “We’re constantly collaborating and giving each other feedback.”

They each regularly perform original music, often together and mainly at clubs and private events around New York City. They also teach privately. Ms. Stevens is the lead singer for Tredici Bacci, a soundtrack music band in New York. She also wrote and recorded a soul and rhythm and blues album “And, I’m Right,” released in 2017, and is working on another. Mr. George, also a teaching artist at public city high schools, performs with Mélange, an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz band led by Kali Rodriguez-Pena. Mr. George’s album, “I Insist,” with original jazz, Black-American music, is to be released Oct. 22.

While unwinding some evenings he plays “Dunas,” their favorite Brazilian song by Rosa Passos, on keyboard. He typically sings it once through in Portuguese, then Ms. Stevens, while lounging on the couch, sings it the second time around. Then they sing it together.

Mr. George proposed Christmas Eve 2019 while they were visiting her parents at their ski cabin in Sugarloaf, Maine. When he suggested they take a walk, she brought along Goober, her family’s black Labrador retriever, who pulled her along even as Mr. George got down on one knee.

They planned to get married, with 150 guests, in August 2020, at her parent’s house by Cobbosseecontee Lake in East Winthrop, Maine, but postponed their plans amid the pandemic.

On Aug. 7, Kevin Scott, a Universal Life minister, officiated there before 100 guests, and a musician played the kora, a West African long-necked harplike instrument. Many guests then swam in the lake, and celebrated with a lobster clam bake.